The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-04
GREATNESS OF LONDON.
It's Vast Population and How Whey
Live.


Home Dy Hon. ~. n. nlCnHFusong Haf-
tor Davenport, la, Democrat
How large is Iowa-how many peo-
pie? Oh, eighteen hundred thousand
peoplel How large is Illinois, her I
or sister stated Say three million and
a quarter-fve millions, say, in both
land a hundred and eleven Thousand
square miles.
How large is Londoni The city COW
ers six hundred and ninety square
miles-about twenty Iowa town
ships; and population just about the
! same as the two states combined.
That is, middle all the people in ILL
/ nois and iowa into Scott county,
I Iowa-hnild Scott county AN over
with streets and parks and public
sQuares-that 10 to say, when
every inch of land in Scott
Is severed, gnssed and water
piped, and every rod is laid IN
streets and parks and public squares,
and all the people of the state and
Illinois are gathered there, the size
will foot up something like London.
TO be particnlar-Rome has not so
many Roman Catholics as London;
Dublin has fewer Irishmen than Lon-
don, Edinburgh less Scotchmen, and
Jews, why all Judea has not one
tenth as many; and it grows every
day. Every four minutes marks d
birth-even while I spend two hours
in writing this, thirty babes will have
been born ana twenty deaths viii
have taken place. You think OF it;
the evening paper that records the
births and the deaths OF the precedent
four and TIVE nty hours, must give
three hundred separate items. Verify
It's joys and sorrow are a multitude.
It's streets. 1t is $500 miles Jour
ney from New York to San Francisco.
You can walk, say twenty miles aday;
a hundred days two thousand miles;
well, it would take you a hundred
ami s~eventy-fve days at that rate to
make the trip. But London has sew
en- thousand miles of stTeets-and if
you took them for a morning walk at
q rate of twenty miles a day, you
would have to walk almost q year
and more than a year by nearly fifty
days If you should lay up Sundays.
And fyou were q thirsty sort of q
traveller, and couldn't pass e drink
ing shop, don't be alarmed-the seven
thousand miles has FIVE and seventy
miles of drinking shops-publics they
call them; SO you need not think of
thirst.
How do these people live-as you
do; by eating. They eat lot. Iean't
go into figures. but you can take your
states and figure up how much they
swallow every day; for in a year these
London folks swallow down five
hundred thousand oxen, two million
sheep, two hundred thousand calves,
three hundred thousand swine, eight
million head of fowls, FIVE hundred
million pounds Of fish, five hundred
million oystrs. two hundred million
lobsters-is that enough to figure ONT
If not there are some million tons of
canned goods; no end o fruit and other
stuff, but not to spoil your appetite
talking OF beans and peas, and fifty
million bushels of wheat, we might as
we'll forbear.
But how do they wash all this stuff
down, you might feel glad to know.
Look sharp. 1t takes two hundred
million quarts of beerl A stream Of
beer about the size of the Wap-
sic would not suffice TO quench the
common thirst. But more tSan this.
they drink ten million quarts OF rum,
and fifty million quarts Of wine-the
wine, the rum, the beer-two hundred
and sixty million quartsl Any water2
Some, for sprinkling streets, about a
hundred and fifty millions of gallons
daily. Taking out the water used for
s~prinkling, cooking and fountains,
and the actual drinking fupply is des-
perately small. But it's English you
know, and there is no use saying a
word.
I said that so many THOUSAND mill
ion oxen, sheep and calves were
chewed up between these London
teeth and taken TO the London NAV.
Where do they come from? Great
Britain can't provide them. Why, il
Britons had to live on Irish, Scotch
or British beef, they'd starye to
death within d week. Britons
get hungry every day-and thirsty.
They can make up beer and rum and
wire enough out Of poor water and
malt and chemists stuifs to- Quench
the general thirst; but when it comes
to mutton, beef. and pork, they can't
do anything, 1t comes in cargoes
from the states. fresh, canned, and on
the hoot; comes here from Canada,
Australia, and Netherlands across the
way-comes here in quantities. to
feed the teeming millions. who. as said,
must starve, ii they looked to home
fields, and herds, and flocks for bread
and meat, and what is true Of bread
and meat is true of garden truck
which comes from Holland. comes
from France, and keeps the peoplefed
What then? The English farmer
can't compete in bread andmeat. The
land shat once WAS worth three
pounds. five, six, seven sterling pounds
per acre every year, is now worth lit
tie. 1t is titled Of course, but whai
the ground may yield must count il